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1st HôTEL ECOLABEL In ST-MALO

Respect for the environment

OUR COMMITMENTS

The team at the MERCURE BALMORAL SAINT-MALO hotel is committed to offering you the most pleasant stay possible, and also makes it a point of honor to respect the environment. Our services come with a guarantee of compliance with ecological standards in accordance with European Ecolabel certification. This mark attests to our efforts to reduce our impact on the environment.

ECOLABEL CERTIFICATION

To guarantee comfort and services while giving meaning to your stay, our hotel, the MERCURE SAINT MALO BALMORAL is committed to the approach of sustainable tourism and has obtained the coveted European Ecolabel certification. The Ecolabel is the only officially recognized environmental label to report environmentally friendly hotels. It rewards both ecological excellence and quality of service. To receive the eco-label, our establishment passes a rigorous environmental compliance test every two years. The results are certified by the Afnor Certification.
Our certification number : EU écolabel : FR/051/169

OUR ACTIONS

Committed to protecting the environment since its creation in April 2010, the Mercure Saint-Malo Balmoral hotel became the first Eco-labeled hotel on the Emerald Coast in June 2012. With the European “Afnor Certification” eco-label, through its environmental policy, the establishment is committed to achieving the following objectives:

Energy

· Control and limit water and electricity consumption as much as possible.
· Consumption of electricity produced 100% from French wind farms.
· Installation of flow regulators for economical water consumption.
· Set room temperatures at 21°C.
· Use of low-energy light bulbs (94% class A).
· 97.67% LED lighting.
· Installation of presence detectors with timers in corridors.

Products and recycling

· Promoting the use of renewable resources and substances that are less harmful to the environment
· Limit waste production and ensure its recovery.
· Installation of a water fountain.
· Glass water bottles available under deposit.
· Recycling Nespresso capsules.
· Compostable tea filters.
· Compost collected by the “La Petite Boucle” bicycle company and redistributed to local farmers.
· Join the To Good To Go anti-waste program.
· Paper reuse.
· Donate used textiles and equipment to charity.
· Selective sorting and collection of cartridges, batteries, light bulbs and other hazardous waste.

Supporting local, organic and fair-trade products
For breakfast, we offer :

· Use of loose organic teas.
· In rooms: Organic and fair-trade coffee pods, organic tea pods, organic sugar sachets.
· Cups for edible spreads.
· Home-made products by our breakfast manager (cakes, hot cider, etc.).
· Numerous organic and local products: Malo yoghurts, Cancale honey, Saint Coulomb jams and caramels, Gavottes spreads from Dinan, crêpes and buckwheat chocolate fondant from Pleudihen.

Other

· Promoting environmentally-friendly means of transport (partnership with a bike rental company and referencing on bicycle touring platforms).
· Participation in beach clean-ups.

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